<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Some men are born to feast, and not to fight; Whose sluggish minds, e'en in fair honor's field,  Still ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13156]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some men are born to feast, and not to fight; Whose sluggish minds, e'en in fair honor's field,  Still on their dinner turn--   Let such pot-boiling varlets stay at home,    And wield a flesh-hook rather than a sword.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas Bray, Priest, Founder of SPCK, 1730  It is sufficient to know in the general that our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7229]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas Bray, Priest, Founder of SPCK, 1730  It is sufficient to know in the general that our employment [in Paradise] shall be our unspeakable pleasure and every way suitable to the glory and happiness of that state, and as much above the noblest and most delightful employments of this world as the perfection of our bodies and the power of our souls shall then be above what they now are in this world. For there is no doubt that he who made us and endued our souls with a desire of immortality and so large a capacity of happiness, does understand very well by what ways and means to make us happy, and hath in readiness proper exercises and employments for that state, and every way more fitted to make us happy than any condition or employment in this world is suitable to a temporal happiness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Death! O Change! O Time! Without you, O! the insufferable eyes  Of these poor Might-Have-Beens,   These ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45675]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Death! O Change! O Time! Without you, O! the insufferable eyes  Of these poor Might-Have-Beens,   These fatuous, ineffectual yesterdays.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After all the bold talk, it's a slap on the wrist that can be paid with just 7.5 seconds of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38979]]></link><description><![CDATA[After all the bold talk, it's a slap on the wrist that can be paid with just 7.5 seconds of Super Bowl ad time, ... This decision sets a puzzling precedent by failing to hold all licensees responsible for the material broadcast over their stations. Why announce such a thorough investigation, if we just let some of the stations that broadcast this material completely off the hook?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no absurdity so obvious that it cannot be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5881]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no absurdity so obvious that it cannot be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to impose it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25582]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored. [Lat., Periere mores, jus, decus, pietas, fides,  Et qui redire nescit, cum perit, pudor.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hope they find (whoever is responsible) in the next 24 hours, so I can get rid of them. I'd ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40746]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hope they find (whoever is responsible) in the next 24 hours, so I can get rid of them. I'd rather have an empty apartment than a bad tenant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look! the massy trunks Are cased in the pure crystal; each light spray,  Nodding and tinkling in the breath ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61708]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look! the massy trunks Are cased in the pure crystal; each light spray,  Nodding and tinkling in the breath of heaven,   Is studded with its trembling water-drops,    That glimmer with an amethystine light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As for me, to love you alone, to make you happy, to do nothing which would contradict your wishes, this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12054]]></link><description><![CDATA[As for me, to love you alone, to make you happy, to do nothing which would contradict your wishes, this is my destiny and the meaning of my life]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Try not to become a man of success but a man of value. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65563]]></link><description><![CDATA[Try not to become a man of success but a man of value.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have no history but the length of my bones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19364]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have no history but the length of my bones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was taught truth, that's when I got my freedom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53772]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was taught truth, that's when I got my freedom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but, all unwept and unknown, are lost in the distant night, since they are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4857]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but, all unwept and unknown, are lost in the distant night, since they are without a divine poet (to chronicle their deeds). [Lat., Vixere fortes ante Agamemnona  Multi; sed omnes illacrimabiles   Urguentur ignotique sacro.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're going to have bad breaks, but so many of the power-play goals we scored were game-winners. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42303]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're going to have bad breaks, but so many of the power-play goals we scored were game-winners.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's nobody at home But Jumping Joan,  And father and mother and I. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19621]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's nobody at home But Jumping Joan,  And father and mother and I.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26998]]></link><description><![CDATA[A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Merciful heaven, Thou rather with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt  Splits the unwedgeable and gnarled oak   Than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3495]]></link><description><![CDATA[Merciful heaven, Thou rather with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt  Splits the unwedgeable and gnarled oak   Than the soft myrtle; but man, proud man,    Dressed in a little brief authority,     Most ignorant of what he's most assured      His glassy essence--like an angry ape       Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven        As makes the angels weep; who, with our spleens,         would all themselves laugh mortal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Minorities are the stars of the firmament; majorities, the darkness in which they float. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27537]]></link><description><![CDATA[Minorities are the stars of the firmament; majorities, the darkness in which they float.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without death and decay, how could life go on? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44084]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without death and decay, how could life go on?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The strategy is to frustrate the other team by trying to make them play in front of you, by not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37604]]></link><description><![CDATA[The strategy is to frustrate the other team by trying to make them play in front of you, by not giving them holes and by being as compact as possible. You have to move the ball even quicker than when you have 11 men because they are going to try and pressure you. There are opportunities to get at them but they did a good job of closing us down. But I think we did an equally good job of holding on to the ball when we did have possession.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The learned man knows that he is ignorant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64677]]></link><description><![CDATA[The learned man knows that he is ignorant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9168]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Tuesday] is the first day I've actually eaten anything or done anything. I felt pretty good on the ice. I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37143]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Tuesday] is the first day I've actually eaten anything or done anything. I felt pretty good on the ice. I don't have much energy, but hopefully [today] I'll feel better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The crooked end obedient spirits draws, The pointed, those rebels who spurn at Christian laws.  [Lat., Curva trahit mites, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53461]]></link><description><![CDATA[The crooked end obedient spirits draws, The pointed, those rebels who spurn at Christian laws.  [Lat., Curva trahit mites, pars pungit acuta rebelles.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After it's all said and done, we usually have a couple thousand left, and we donate that to the Anacortes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37671]]></link><description><![CDATA[After it's all said and done, we usually have a couple thousand left, and we donate that to the Anacortes Boys and Girls Club.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Nicholas, Bishop of Myra, c.326 If we with earnest effort could succeed To make our life one long, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6599]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Nicholas, Bishop of Myra, c.326 If we with earnest effort could succeed To make our life one long, connected prayer, As lives of some, perhaps, have been and are; If, never leaving Thee, we have no need Our wandering spirits back again to lead Into Thy presence, but continued there Like angels standing on the highest stair Of the Sapphire Throne: this were to pray indeed!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When God will, no winde but brings raine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50072]]></link><description><![CDATA[When God will, no winde but brings raine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mad as a March hare. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21015]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mad as a March hare.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10624]]></link><description><![CDATA[When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12912]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue: he approaches nearest to the Gods, who knows how to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56293]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue: he approaches nearest to the Gods, who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is kind of capping a string of fairly strong numbers, and I'm even going to have to boost my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42253]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is kind of capping a string of fairly strong numbers, and I'm even going to have to boost my estimate of fourth quarter GDP up closer to 3 percent. We know the Fed is sitting on the edge of its seat. It's going to make everybody a bit nervous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He had a fever when he was in Spain, And when the fit was on him, I did mark  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56240]]></link><description><![CDATA[He had a fever when he was in Spain, And when the fit was on him, I did mark  How he did shake. 'Tis true, this god did shake.   His coward lips did from their color fly,    And that same eye whose bend doth awe the world     Did lose his luster.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not like I walked in expecting this, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39810]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not like I walked in expecting this,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I go away and come again each day, But thou shalt go away and ne'er return. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58310]]></link><description><![CDATA[I go away and come again each day, But thou shalt go away and ne'er return.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[only god can judge me ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52971]]></link><description><![CDATA[only god can judge me]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The abstract metaphysical monotheism, the constant emphasis laid on God's unity and infinite and incomprehensible essence, could not give light ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7160]]></link><description><![CDATA[The abstract metaphysical monotheism, the constant emphasis laid on God's unity and infinite and incomprehensible essence, could not give light to the mind or peace to the heart... How human is the God of the Old Testament -- the God who appears, speaks, guides, who loves and is loved, even as the Man of the New Testament, Christ Jesus, is divine! This difference between the idea of an absolute and infinite God and the God of Scripture is, after all, that which separates the true believer and Christian from the natural man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To thee, O God, we turn for peace; but grant us, too, the blessed assurance that nothing shall deprive us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8161]]></link><description><![CDATA[To thee, O God, we turn for peace; but grant us, too, the blessed assurance that nothing shall deprive us of that peace, neither ourselves, nor our foolish, earthly desires, nor my wild longings, nor the anxious cravings of my heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just as appetite comes from eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2890]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just as appetite comes from eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In heaven, all the interesting people are missing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63608]]></link><description><![CDATA[In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The three great elements of modern civilization, Gunpowder, Printing, and the Protestant Religion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8837]]></link><description><![CDATA[The three great elements of modern civilization, Gunpowder, Printing, and the Protestant Religion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the cpourage to follow the talent to the dark places where it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58599]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the cpourage to follow the talent to the dark places where it leads.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Jack Winslow, Missionary, Evangelist, 1974  What will move you? Will pity? Here is distress never the like. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7239]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Jack Winslow, Missionary, Evangelist, 1974  What will move you? Will pity? Here is distress never the like. Will duty? Here is a person never the like. Will fear? Here is wrath never the like. Will remorse? Here are sins never the like. Will kindness? Here is love never the like. Will bounty? Here are benefits never the like. Will all these? Here they be all, all in the highest degree.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A smile is a curve that sets everything straight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56658]]></link><description><![CDATA[A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never utter these words: 'I do not know this, therefore it is false.' One must study to know; know to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23482]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never utter these words: 'I do not know this, therefore it is false.' One must study to know; know to understand; understand to judge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[May you live all the days of your life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59418]]></link><description><![CDATA[May you live all the days of your life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think you have to give all the credit to Lower. He (Holden) is a fantastic coach. His team came ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35463]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think you have to give all the credit to Lower. He (Holden) is a fantastic coach. His team came ready to play.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reward of one duty done is the power to fulfill another ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17037]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reward of one duty done is the power to fulfill another]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wouldn't view this as the start of a weaker trend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36347]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wouldn't view this as the start of a weaker trend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each of us is a being in himself and a being in society, each of us needs to understand himself ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4025]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each of us is a being in himself and a being in society, each of us needs to understand himself and understand others, take care of others and be taken care of himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4025</guid></item></channel></rss>